The history of all religions ... comprehending a series of researches explanatory of the opinions, customs, and representative worship in the churches. Which have been established from the beginning of time to the commencement of the Christian dispensation; the accomplishment of the prophecies of the person of Christ; incontrovertibly proving by the positive declarations of the prophets that he is the true Messiah ... / by John Bellamy.

  • Bellamy, John, 1755-1842.
Date:
1813
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Credit: The history of all religions ... comprehending a series of researches explanatory of the opinions, customs, and representative worship in the churches. Which have been established from the beginning of time to the commencement of the Christian dispensation; the accomplishment of the prophecies of the person of Christ; incontrovertibly proving by the positive declarations of the prophets that he is the true Messiah ... / by John Bellamy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of such consequence, as to bring Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them against Israel]. We have a certain rule for determiving that these nations at length fell away from the true worship of God and became idolaters; because it is said that, by these descend- ants of Japhet, the isles of the Gentiles were divided in their land; and the Gentiles, or rations, for so the original word signifies, were universally idolaters. Ham is next on record; and here the sa-~ ered historian has been particular jn giving the origin and descent ef idolatrens worship after the flood. It appears to have been his design particu- larly to notice zdelatry, and the true worship of God ; the first introduced by Ham, the latter established by the patriarch Shem: therefore as Mitsraim, the soa of Ham, settled in Egypt, I shall begin the inquiry concerning idolatrous worship with the Egyptians. THE RELIGION OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. [ have, in another place, said, that the Mythology of the Heathens had its origm im Egypt, that from thence it passed to the Ifebrews, then to the Phani-